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“I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.”

Firsts Action Stuff Love Is Computer Weapons First Love Action Movie Lethal Weapon

Author:Josh Peck

“The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.”

Feels Writing Firsts Play Action Moving Actors Directors Bones Rehearsal Skeletons

Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.”

Ifs Firsts Country Action Talking Becoming Capable Europe Unions Zone Other Countries Spain Greece Making Changes European Union Euro Portugal

Author:George Papandreou

“You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.”

Firsts Persons Different Action Design Program Combat First Person Shooter

Author:John Romero

“To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.”

Source: The Idea of Justice

“THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.”

Knows Want Firsts Believe Self Action Desire Steps Events Following What You Want Objectives Fulfillment Encounters First Steps Constructs

Book:The Neville Goddard Collection

Source: The Neville Goddard Collection

“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.”

Ifs Firsts Doe States Facts Action Values Three Opportunity Work United United States Hard Work Thirds Embrace Obligation Pursue Mold Free Society

Author:Roberto Goizueta

“To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow.”

Thinking Way Firsts Today Action Success Talking Best Way Champion Thoughts And Actions

Author:Hal Elrod

“Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.”

Firsts Sometimes Action Lying Answers Practice Fire Ready Aim Strategy Adjustment

Book:Zen Guitar

Source: Zen Guitar

“If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.”

People Ifs Life Firsts Looks Action Worst Judging Looking Good

Author:Derek R. Audette

“There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.”

Firsts Action Understanding

Book:Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

“If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.”

Ifs Want Firsts Mean Feelings Action Change Conditions Everyday Life Changing Everyday Life Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Social Responsibility

Source: Social Responsibility

“When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.”

Firsts Stills Action Thirds Oratory

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action”

Firsts Action Simple Situation Principles Military Return Critical

Author:Winston Churchill

“Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.”

Firsts Bigs Happens Action Acting Steps Break Plans Prejudice Planning First Steps Bias Biased Small Steps

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”

“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.”

“The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.”

World Firsts Different Reality Action Order Cutting Magic Objects Unity Myth Contrary Oppression Links Oppressed Unjust Cords Umbilical Cord

Author:Paulo Freire

“There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a "free" line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as "free" as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision.”

Ifs Firsts Hands Action Lines Draws Rate Critical Continents Surgeons

Book:The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

Source: The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm

“So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.”

Ifs Firsts Action Mother Father Decision Like You Life Changing Changing Your Life

Author:Tony Robbins

“When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks of is the condition of her uterus.”

Thinking Men Firsts Action Conditions Uterus

Author:Clare Boothe Luce

“The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but others beginning to think in different ways. And the black population was transformed, having risen up in mass action for the first time, feeling its power, knowing now that if the old order could be shaken it could be toppled.”

Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Different Feelings Action Order Black White Knowing Events Mass First Time Population Defense Different Ways Transformed Stubborn Segregation Risen

Author:Howard Zinn

“Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.”

Way Firsts Action Law Numbers Known Students Speech Behavior Constitution Strategy Bottom Despite Distinction Amendments Manipulate First Amendment Inconsequential

Author:Stanley Fish

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Believe Persons Sometimes Action I Believe Differences Too Much Danger Periods Bravery Courageous Coward Frightened Fearful Cowardice Peril Cowardly Branded

Author:Gene Wolfe

“In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.”

“How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.”

“When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Action Lasts Courses Easy Violence Streets Revolution Gun

Author:Immortal Technique

“I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.”

People Years Firsts Believe Action Suffering Values I Believe Church Grief First Time Tragedy Terror Temples Cathedrals Examining Mosques Value Systems Terror Attacks Call To Action

Author:Jane Goodall

“The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.”

Men Firsts Reason Action Fighting He Man Battle Shapes Draws Strive Vices Lust Conquer Preparation Judgement

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Roughly, the action of a character should be unpredictable before it has been shown, inevitable when it has been shown. In the first half of a novel, the unpredictability should be the more striking. In the second half, the inevitability should be the more striking.”

Should Firsts Has Beens Character Action Half Novel Inevitable Unpredictable Inevitability Unpredictability

Book:Collected Impressions

Source: Collected Impressions

“A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.”

Firsts Wells States Moments Light Would Be Action Loss Negative Pressure Suggestions Equilibrium Right Moment Rudders Negative Actions

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.”

World Firsts Different Shows Action Together Steps Fit Definitions Labels First Steps

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.”

World Firsts Persons Book Action Reading Understanding Steps Scene Empathy Training Roots First Steps Not Alone Understanding You

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.”

Firsts Humans Action Events Plant Climate Change Midst Extinction Human Actions

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.”

Firsts Action Universe Steps Ten Creating Phones Nine First Steps

Author:Georgette Mosbacher

“When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank me for Trinity because she was an action writer. She said she was getting really good opportunities now.”

Firsts Said Action Opportunity Come Up Trinity Good Opportunity

Author:Carrie-Anne Moss

“Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of his life never allowed him the freedom of choice. He might perhaps sincerely have preferred the groves of the Academy and the society of Athens; but he was constrained, at first by the will, and afterwards by the injustice of Constantius, to expose his person and fame to the dangers of Imperial greatness; and to make himself accountable to the world and to posterity for the happiness of millions.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.”

Should Firsts Wells Has Beens Said Ends Use Able Action Education Principles Repeats Occupation Leisure

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.”

World Firsts May Different Action Differences This World Greatness Fame Strive Significant Originality Daring Thoughts And Actions

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.”

Knows Firsts Country Action Interest Principles Unjust

Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek

“If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.”

People Ifs World Needs Firsts May Happens Today Able Action Young Effort Generations Century Peaceful Granted 21st Century Peaceful World

Author:Dalai Lama

“I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.”

Thinking Needs Giving Firsts Humans Would Be Action Human Beings Quality Steps Position Mets Courageous First Steps

Author:Shepard Fairey

“I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell”

Giving Firsts Looks Has Beens Real Done Might Action Lasts Form Heaven Christ Religious Results Steps Judgment Wings Deeds Look Up First Steps Distribution Printed Judgment Day Deeds Done

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.”

Firsts Two States Action Belief Religious Opinion Fundamentals Determined Categories Representation Rite

Book:Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

Source: Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks

“Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?”

Firsts Moments Today Action Moving Form Goal Steps Achieve Right Now Moving Forward First Steps Site Attainment Goals And Objectives

Author:Tony Robbins